Publications by Dominique Soldati-Favre

Functional and Computational Genomics Reveal Unprecedented Flexibility in Stage-Specific Toxoplasma Metabolism

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Damien Lionel Nicolas, Dominique Soldati-Favre, Anush Chiappino-Pepe, Aarti Krishnan, Matteo Lunghi

To survive and proliferate in diverse host environments with varying nutrient availability, the obligate intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii reprograms its metabolism. We have generated and curated a genome-scale metabolic model (iTgo) for the fast-re ...

CELL PRESS2020

Genome-Scale Identification of Essential Metabolic Processes for Targeting the Plasmodium Liver Stage

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Dominique Soldati-Favre, Anush Chiappino-Pepe, Vikash Kumar Pandey

Plasmodium gene functions in mosquito and liver stages remain poorly characterized due to limitations in the throughput of phenotyping at these stages. To fill this gap, we followed more than 1,300 barcoded P. berghei mutants through the life cycle. We dis ...

2019

Bioenergetics-based modeling of Plasmodium falciparum metabolism reveals its essential genes, nutritional requirements, and thermodynamic bottlenecks

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Stepan Tymoshenko, Dominique Soldati-Favre, Meriç Ataman, Anush Chiappino-Pepe

Novel antimalarial therapies are urgently needed for the fight against drug-resistant para- sites. The metabolism of malaria parasites in infected cells is an attractive source of drug targets but is rather complex. Computational methods can handle this co ...

Public Library of Science2017

Metabolic Needs and Capabilities of Toxoplasma gondii through Combined Computational and Experimental Analysis

Jens Nielsen, Rebecca Oppenheim, Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Stepan Tymoshenko, Dominique Soldati-Favre

Toxoplasma gondii is a human pathogen prevalent worldwide that poses a challenging and unmet need for novel treatment of toxoplasmosis. Using a semi-automated reconstruction algorithm, we reconstructed a genome-scale metabolic model, ToxoNet1. The reconstr ...

Public Library Science2015

Functional genomics of Plasmodium falciparum using metabolic modelling and analysis

Rebecca Oppenheim, Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Stepan Tymoshenko, Dominique Soldati-Favre

Plasmodium falciparum is an obligate intracellular parasite and the leading cause of severe malaria responsible for tremendous morbidity and mortality particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Successful completion of the P. falciparum genome sequencing project ...

Oxford Univ Press2013